We created a what / so what chart to prepare for answering the following question:
Describe how Shakespeare uses imagery and allusion to reveal the persona's character.
The what / so what chart will be marked so please be thorough in your comments.
A thesis which answers the question could like something like the example below:
In Shakespeare's "Sonnet 29," the persona admits that the only relief from suffering is thinking about his friend; effective use of imagery and allusion reveal the depth of his despair and the ecstasy of friendship.
We completed the paragraph during class.
Marks awarded for
- following the literary must-haves list
- written expression (diction, sentence variety, transitions)
- logical organization (points, evidence, explanations which relate back to the thesis)
Homework: Review all the literary terms that we have covered so far. Put the terms onto cards or onto powerpoint slides (if you bring a computer to class) with examples from works we have studied.
The terms are defined in the glossary at the back of your text book or on-line.
These are the terms for Monday:
alliteration
allusion
aphorism
assonance
ballad
caesura
colloquial language
couplet
diction
dramatic irony
elegy
English sonnet (Shakespearean)
figurative language
foreshadowing
genre
hero
heroic couplet
hyperbole
iambic
image / imagery
irony (verbal, dramatic, situational)
Italian sonnet (Petrarchan)
juxtapostion
kenning
lyric
metaphor
meter
mood
motif
octave
paradox
parallelism
petnameter
persona
quatrain
bob
wheel
rhyme scheme
satire
sestet
simile
sonnet
speaker
Spenserian stanza
style
symbol
syntax
tercet
theme
tone
understatement
voice
volta
wit
